I like to leave a blank line at the end of items that have bodies, but I
found functions like org-metaup, org-metadown, and org-refile were
leaving that blank line behind. Here's a patch to fix that:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 5eb0bc8..e3d71b7 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -18448,7 +18448,7 @@ Taken from `count' in cl-seq.el with all keyword
arguments
"Move backwards over whitespace, to the beginning of the first empty line.
Returns the number of empty lines passed."
(let ((pos (point)))
- (skip-chars-backward " \t\n\r")
+ (forward-line -1)
(beginning-of-line 2)
(goto-char (min (point) pos))
(count-lines (point) pos)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I can't think of a reason you would want to leave trailing blank lines
behind, but in case some people rely on that behavior, here's an
alternate patch that creates an option called
org-preserve-trailing-blank-lines:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 5eb0bc8..e90798c 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -1098,6 +1098,11 @@ breaking the list structure."
(const :tag "Always" t)
(const :tag "Auto" auto)))))
+(defcustom org-preserve-trailing-blank-lines t
+ "Non-nil means preserve blank lines at the end of an item."
+ :group 'org-edit-structure
+ :type 'boolean)
+
(defcustom org-insert-heading-hook nil
"Hook being run after inserting a new heading."
:group 'org-edit-structure
@@ -18448,7 +18453,9 @@ Taken from `count' in cl-seq.el with all keyword
arguments
"Move backwards over whitespace, to the beginning of the first empty line.
Returns the number of empty lines passed."
(let ((pos (point)))
- (skip-chars-backward " \t\n\r")
+ (if org-preserve-trailing-blank-lines
+ (forward-line -1)
+ (skip-chars-backward " \t\n\r"))
(beginning-of-line 2)
(goto-char (min (point) pos))
(count-lines (point) pos)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
If this is accepted, perhaps the function org-back-over-empty-lines
should be renamed to org-back-over-lines.
Regards,
Jason
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